Bob Woodward said Sunday Democratic senators have called the White House asking if defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel will withdraw his nomination only to be met with an emphatic no, in an interview with Fox News Sunday:

A black eye for Barky this early in his second term would be a very good thing.

The next thing to do is to kill Brennan's nomination on the grounds of his secret (and thus ILLEGAL) wars in Libya and Syria being the cause of the disaster in Benghazi. We simply must expose the motive for the passive murder of an American ambassador directly into the White House.

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posted on 02/17/2013 9:05:47 AM PST
by Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to be "protected" by government.)

I’m worried that McCain and Graham will fold after making noises and vote for cloture along with a few other liberal Republicans. The Rats will be told to get in line by the White House and they will follow orders. This will rise or fall on the Republicans not folding and agreeing to some deal that will allow a floor vote.

Hagel appears to be a mental midget devoid of ethics and a person who resents anyone smarter than him which includes at least more than half of the population. Hagel is the poster child for evidence that intelligence is not required to be successful and that it can be done on the basis of other factors. Those factors don’t appear to require being a “people person” either.

Hagel, if approved, will only surround himself with people less intelligent than he is and will punish anyone who is not in that category. This is completely in line with obastard’s plans to destroy from within. McLame is a willing accomplice to the plan.

You have to wonder...what was going through the mind of the President and staff when the sequestration idea was first tossed around as an option. They had to have some motive and indication of where things were going to go if this was implemented, and it had to agree with their agenda. I suspect that they realize the economic swing of the nation has now put them into a very difficult situation...with unemployment climbing again, and things looking dismal for November 2014.

Yes and McCain and Graham jumped all over Cruz for daring to ask tough questions to Hagel about finances and donations I believe. When do we EVER see a democrat critisizing another DEM—NEVER. We finally have someone that is standing up to the BO administration and these two try to sabatoge it. That’s why we need new blood in the Senate. The old “be a gentleman” rules don’t work with a bunch of Marxists. They use it against us and people like Graham and McCain are too stupid to figure that out.

My friends, Hagel is not qualified, my friend, but I will not hold this vote up any further, my friend. You can be disagreeable, my friend, but if you are disagreeable, people won't forget that, my friend.

Im worried that McCain and Graham will fold after making noises and vote for cloture along with a few other liberal Republicans.

I'm seeing a possible split between the lovebirds. Smoke signals from this morning's talking head shows suggest Graham is digging in, and McInsane is saying he wants to cave after recess. McInsane will bring enough Senators to collapse to opposition to Hagel, and I predicted this a week ago.

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posted on 02/17/2013 10:17:00 AM PST
by Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)

"My friends, Hagel is not qualified, my friend, but I will not hold this vote up any further, my friend. You can be disagreeable, my friend, but if you are disagreeable, people won't forget that, my friend. Does McCain make any sense here, my friend?"

Often I think McCain is a deep cover agent for the Rats who exists to put the knife between the ribs whenever he can do the most damage.

I like it when his voice goes up when he gets stressed out; the shoulders come up, the swagger disappears. Yep, I like it when he's shrill. We need to work that yapping punk like the eight-year-old brat that he really is.

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posted on 02/17/2013 10:44:50 AM PST
by Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to be "protected" by government.)

That’s not what HotAir is saying. They have Woodward saying that senators are calling the WH and asking IF they are withdrawing Hagel’s name. HotAir is not saying that the Dems are demanding or even asking for Hagel’s withdrawal.

Shouldn't that sentence begin, “The vote of the Israel hating Jewish DemocRat Senators...”? For the life of me, Liberman is the only Jewish Senator who votes 100% pro Israel I can think of. The rest might as well be classified as Muslim sympathizers. Reminds me of Progressive Republican RINOs who are nothing more than DemocRat Socialist sympathizers.

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posted on 02/17/2013 12:57:16 PM PST
by cashless
(Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)

Meh. I don’t think so. I think McInsane lives for the dog cookie he will get from the media in the here and now, rather than to “control” something in the future. He sees a big-time “Atta Boy!” from his pals at the NYT and WaPo coming his way and he’s never shown an ability to resist that.

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posted on 02/17/2013 1:27:54 PM PST
by Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)

Both these idiots know that the people of Arizona and South Carolina will re elect them as long as they run for the office. Remember the gang of 5? This is all a big show and, as usual, we are the losers.

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